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Gayle Benson, owner of the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans, paid off nearly $100,000 worth of customers’ layaway orders at a New Orleans Walmart, New Orleans news outlets reported.
Adam Rose, an officer with the East Ridge Police Department in Tennessee, was fired for having a sexual relationship with an 18-yearold high school student, but an internal affairs investigation determined he had not violated any policies or criminal laws.
Alaa Hamed, an Indiana state trooper, moved an SUV that was pinning a woman to a toll booth after she tried to retrieve a debit card, then performed CPR until paramedics arrived and used a defibrillator to resuscitate her.
Gregory Stanton, 49, faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to tampering with consumer products after he was seen on video he posted online urinating on a Kellogg’s cereal conveyor belt at a Memphis plant.
Michael Freeman, an Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality investigator, says the agency is trying to identify the contents of 16 55-gallon drums that were dropped off in a field near an Oklahoma City industrial area.
Jimmy Rane and Cathy Randall, co-chairmen of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s inauguration, says the “Keep Alabama Growing” inauguration theme underscores Ivey’s campaign promises on job growth and education.
Aaron Urbanski, 31, was arrested on trespassing charges in Cleburne, Texas, after, authorities said, he protested at a church’s breakfast with Santa event, telling children Santa Claus is not real.
Matthew Sink, minister of Pinedale Christian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., said day care employees were on the playground with 20 children when six of them slipped into a door of the church without being seen, went down a hall and left through the church’s front door, with five of them wandering toward a major road, police said.
Jesi Pitre and her sister Remi returned to their home in Apopka, Fla., seven months after being born conjoined at the belly, after a series of surgeries at a Gainesville, Fla., hospital successfully separated the girls, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Sedarius Dennis, 31, faces aggravated assault and weapons charges after, police said, he shot two men inside a downtown Atlanta hotel connected to CNN’s headquarters and was captured by CNN security personnel.